Contains junk from my college days to applying the Dilbert principle at work to theater to nostalgia to Jim Morrison to Schumi to friends to getting old and none the wiser, and more recently, Indian socio-political commentary: or, just blah blah and more blah

Wednesday, August 05, 2009

50 things I am grateful about

Rider: Some of these may (have already) lapse (-ed) as I grow older/wiser/dumber.

1. Faith in all its shapes and forms 2. Television and the remote control 3. Formula 1 and Michael Schumacher 4. Steffi Graf 5. Sportstar magazine 6. The Economist 7. The games of basketball and tennis 8. Books that can be digested 9. Philosophy and philosophers 10. Computer programming and algorithms 11. University of Roorkee and 4 years of wasting highly subsidized education 12. Dramatics Section of Roorkee and its plays 13. The billiards/snooker club at Roorkee 14. Chilling out with old friends 15. Vacations at grandparents’ place 16. Levi’s 530 jeans 17. Benetton t-shirts 18. Perfumes 19. Kakori kababs 20. Pizzas with a crunchy crust 21. Tim Horton’s ice-cap 22. Sherlock Holmes 23. E-mail and voice over IP (voice chat for laymen) 24. New York and its coolness 25. New Delhi and its chaos 26. Long, non-stop flights with a personal entertainment system 27. MS Windows and Outlook 28. Sarcasm 29. Humor 30. Fights 31. Lucknow’s tehzeeb 32. Urdu language and its poetry – Mirza Ghalib 33. Dev Anand and his black and white songs 34. Rock music 35. Red Ferraris 36. Rains on a hot day 37. Sun on a cold winter day 38. Lemon soda (salty) 39. Hookah while lounging around with pals 40. Hangars and hooks 41. Beach 42. Digital cameras to capture all the unimportant moments that become precious with time 43. Indian democracy 44. My organization and time management skills 45. My (universally acknowledged) leadership skills 46. ATMs that don’t charge any fees 47. GRE wordlist 48. Post-Its 49. Napping at work 50. Verdana font